It was a conundrum that Arsene Wenger never really solved during the final few months of his reign following Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s arrival in January – how to get the former Borussia Dortmund striker and Arsenal’s other potent forward, Alexandre Lacazette, into the same starting XI.
Unai Emery too, has spent much of the summer debating that exact problem. Throughout pre-season, the Gunners gaffer has switched between using Aubameyang as his left winger and Lacazette as the central forward, and simply dropping the latter to make room for the former at the tip of attack.
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